Greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. To whet our appetites for this year’s conference in beautiful New Orleans, this week’s posts come to us from the feature the perspectives of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval) members, where the uniqueness of doing evaluation in the gulf south will be on …
LAWG Week: Advising for Equity in Evaluation by Emmy O’Dwyer Read More »
Greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. To whet our appetites for this year’s conference in beautiful New Orleans, this week’s posts come to us from the feature the perspectives of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval) members, where the uniqueness of doing evaluation in the gulf south will be on …
I’m Patricia Moore Shaffer of the Shaffer Evaluation Group, a small, woman-owned evaluation firm that works with education partners — school districts, colleges and universities, government agencies, and nonprofits — to develop programs that address and correct long-standing inequities in education. I’ve been leading external evaluations of educational initiatives in the beautiful State of Alaska …
Hello! I am Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut. I am excited to share with you an activity I developed on evaluating everyday objects. I was motivated to develop this activity due to a shift to online education because of the coronavirus pandemic. This activity was inspired by Preskill and Russ-Eft’s …
Greetings from Vidhya Shanker, an interdependent evaluation scholar and practitioner. With the new year, the inauguration, and the launch of vaccinations, it’s easy to let diverse optics fool us into thinking that we’ve turned a corner and lull us back to business as usual. This liberal narrative of progress—from which evaluation and its surrounding industries …
Hi, my name is Tom Archibald, Associate Professor at Virginia Tech and board member of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS). I’ve been thinking a lot about recent calls to transform evaluation. For example, we have: Blue Marble Evaluation’s Transformational Alignment Principle based on the premise of transforming evaluation to evaluate transformation The Equitable Evaluation …
Capacity, Complexity, and Collaboration to Transform Evaluation by Tom Archibald Read More »
Greetings from beautiful New Hampshire! I am Rosie Emerson—a Kenyan external evaluator of international development programs (mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa). I have led over 50 evaluation projects and in this post, I would like to share some overarching lessons from my experiences: Programs should stop trying to “boil an ocean”: Too often, development programs have …
Hello, I’m Martha Brown, and I started my consulting business in 2016 thanks to some encouragement from a group of passionate independent consultants. I was recently inspired by a keynote speaker, Lea Bill, at the 2018 CES Conference. She displayed a logic model that was circular and artistic, and it included the values of the …
IC TIG Week: Reaping What You Sow by Martha Brown Read More »
Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. (http://www.gosheneducationconsulting.com) and the chair for the Independent Consulting TIG (IC TIG). My company focuses on educational evaluation and data support for clients in Southern Illinois. I had a great time at the annual conference. While it was exhausting, I also, …
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Hello All! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a bunch of Rad Resources – free photo sites for all your evaluation projects and presentations. In case you haven’t heard, cheesy stock photos are out! Show me a stock photo of an office setting and I guarantee someone in the photo …
Sheila B Robinson on Fantastically Free Photo Sites for Your Projects Read More »
